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REUNITED: The show’s head writer won’t say if Kimberly McCullough’s Robin, above, who is presumed dead, will resurface.

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For a daytime show that was considered to be on life support just a year ago, “General Hospital” looks robust — and is ready to party.

The ABC serial (weekdays at 2 p.m. on WCVB, Ch. 5) celebrates its 50th anniversary April 1, making it the longest-running daytime soap currently in production, with almost 13,000 episodes aired. The soap’s celebration has been bubbling for weeks as a seeming legion of familiar faces from the past return.

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